Security Boulevard

JANUARY 19, 2023

Predictions on insider threats, passwordless authentication, artificial intelligence, and more Few industries move as quickly as cybersecurity, broadly, and the identity and access management (IAM) segment, specifically. We see them leading the way in implementing broad consumer adoption of passwordless authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Because of PrivX’s modern technology, it is also one of the easiest solutions to deploy in large environments. Often, organizations are not implementing PAM comprehensively, leaving some of their privileged user accounts under a risk of being compromised for criminal purposes. Easy to use for administrators and users.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. The four major U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

26 posting confirming that the compromise was at the hands of the same nation-state threat group behind the SolarWinds hack and subsequent attacks on various technology companies and federal government agencies. The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

Census Bureau’s latest  Annual Retail Trade Survey  reports e-commerce expenditures rose from $571.2 is clearly failing to protect cardholder account details effectively in today’s environment. Protect stored account data. Identify users and authenticate access to system components. In fact, the U.S. and PCI v4.0:

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 31, 2023

As technology progresses, so are these cyber scammers who have learned to utilise AI chatbots and deep fake technology to make their attacks even more sophisticated. Once you enter your credentials or other sensitive information, the bad actors can use it to access your accounts or steal your identity.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 22, 2024

Users can save credit card details that can be easily filled on retail websites, as well as bank information such as account and routing numbers. This could encompass access to important documents, accounts or specific instructions.

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

An Office 365 retail pack. Researchers last week spotted a phishing campaign that leveraged an online email authentication solution from Zix, in hopes that potential victims would be lulled into a false sense of security. Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The Resecurity® HUNTER unit has identified a new tool available for sale in the Dark Web called MASQ , enabling bad actors to emulate device fingerprints thus allowing them to bypass fraud protection controls, including authentication mechanisms. All of that – can be easily be spoofed and bypassed with help of the new MASQ tool.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. ” continues the report.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Identity theft happens when someone uses your personal or financial information — like your Social Security or financial account number — to commit fraud. If your data is used to open an account, take out a loan or lease, file taxes, or apply for unemployment insurance or other government benefits, you may be the victim of identity theft.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

We’re now seeing big data play an increasing role in how retail sales and payments are being tailored to individual consumer’s preferences, and providers are adopting and integrating smarter, more efficient ways of completing the path-to-purchase. Three-Domain Secure (3DS) 2.0 Three-Domain Secure (3DS) 2.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Data sprawl Airports handle the identity records of a highly diverse population of employees, including hospitality, retail, security, and maintenance staff. For example, implementing multifactor authentication (MFA) through mobile authenticator apps is impossible in airport areas where smartphones are prohibited.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

It enables insurance companies to collect and share data with customers about their insured goods in real time, allows consumers to make instant contactless payments and provides the framework for retail banks to collect information on each customer that enters one of their locations. Better investment decisions.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2023

Biometrics are automated methods used to identify an individual or verify/authenticate an individual's identity based on physiological characteristics and behavioral traits. It can lead to risky online behavior, such as accepting a push notification to authenticate a login that the user didn't initiate. What are biometrics?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. mandates that account data storage is kept to a minimum by implementing data retention and disposal policies, procedures, and processes. Requirement 3.2

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Someone with a gift for technology but a nasty habit of using it for very bad things has been spared from going to jail with a suspended sentence. His compromise modus operandi was a combination of breaking into networks run by food retailers, and breaking into networks containing confidential patient records. A strange combination.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2021

A bold move by the retail giant which aims to offer the complete shopping journey for customers by changing how identification at check-in can substitute authentication at check-out for payment. The technology has only been deployed in the USA for now in two of Amazon’s stores in Seattle, Washington. A need to adapt.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

509 certificates to authenticate and secure communication between Kubernetes workloads, containers, clusters and microservices. million downloads per day across industries including financial services, technology, retail, healthcare and manufacturing. retailers; and the top four banks in each of the following countries: the U.S.,

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

The new Badge Partner Program further accelerates the adoption and integration of Badge’s privacy-preserving authentication, enabling even more users to benefit from seamless MFA experiences across any device or application without storing user secrets or private keys. “We Learn more at www.badgeinc.com.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 26, 2018

To reach its tipping point, cashless payment technology has come on a long way since the first magnetic stripe card almost 50 years ago. New technologies, particularly in advances in payments, will inevitably bring with them new security concerns. ( Originally posted on Cards International). Convenience is king. Convenience is king.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

. “I don’t think it would influence Federal Reserve policy, but what it might do is influence the industry to take additional action through our existing venues and our ability to share the data,” said Trish Supples, advanced subject matter expert in the Retail Payments Office at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In November VISA published another security alert, titled “ ATTACKS TARGETING POINT-OF-SALE AT FUEL DISPENSER MERCHANTS ,” that warns of threat actors that were able to obtain payment card data due to the lack of secure acceptance technology, (e.g. EMV Chip, Pointto -Point Encryption, Tokenization, etc.)

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 16, 2021

Fast forward to 2021, the European Banking Authority passed the Strong Consumer Authentication (SCA)—a PSD2 requirement—for payment service providers to make online payments more secure and prevent financial fraud. In the UK, the enforcement deadline has been extended six months from September 14, 2021 to March 14, 2022. Furthermore: .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Organizations in the finance sector manage trillions of dollars and maintain very valuable and vital electronic data, including bank account, credit card, and transaction information as well as sensitive data related to estates, wills, titles, and other matters. Thu, 09/01/2022 - 05:15.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Interestingly, 61 percent of all SMBs and 79 percent of large SMBs believe cyberhackers have more sophisticated technology at their disposal than the SMBs’ own cybersecurity resources. “I There are so many more ways to subvert authentication. Years of stealing user names and passwords, and poor password practices add to this mix.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

It is no surprise that healthcare organizations accounted for the most data breaches in the first half of 2015, according to a new report. First, the industry in general was a late adopter to digital, mobile and cloud technologies with the advent of electronic health records in just the last five years.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

PayPal users maintained their position as the most frequently targeted payment system users, with phishing pages mimicking this payment system accounting for 37.8% In 2021, Kaspersky anti-phishing technologies detected over 250 million attempts to follow a phishing link on user computers, with 8.2% share for banking. As many as 41.8%

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Previous communications lacked sufficient detail, according to the SAO’s account. “Government tends to let technology stay in place until replacement or upgrade is unavoidable, something we call ‘management by landmine.’ Hence the reason why credit card information is never transmitted to the retailer. ” . .

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

Security solutions integrated into operating systems, two-factor authentication and other verification measures have helped reduce the number of vulnerable users. BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device. of attacks.

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Google Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This is also an area where federal funding may be most needed; security bounty programs will add even more incentive for the security community to pressure test evaluation scheme results and hold the entire labeling program supply chain accountable. The larger the retailer, the more impact is possible.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The use of IoT technologies holds enormous potential in practically every segment of human enterprise – government, banking and finance, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and ecommerce to name a few. These are: Enabling strong mutual authentication between connected devices and applications. Threats and Vulnerabilities.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Critics charged the IRS’s plan would unfairly disadvantage people with disabilities or limited access to technology or Internet, and that facial recognition systems tend to be less accurate for people with darker skin. “People should continue to file their taxes as they normally would.” ” Login.gov is run by the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in ” reported ZDNet. . ” reported ZDNet.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The technology isn’t yet perfect, but it has evolved to a point that enterprise use is growing. The application of facial recognition technology in operations was primarily in law enforcement organizations until the last decade, when a massive advance in AI and deep learning allowed it to be more broadly applied.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In our recent passkey blog series , we’ve been unpacking the difference between new passkey technology and more conventional password security in light of some of the most critical authentication scenarios. They can also be used on other devices through QR code-based “hybrid” authentication. That’s where passkeys come in.

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